Friday, July 23, 2010

The Flight is Complete

Good evening from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The team arrived around 10:00 am this morning after 22 hours in the air and several hours of waiting in Dallas, LA, and Taipei. We are housed in a beautiful guesthouse that is run by the pastor of one of the churches here. We are all on one floor (with air in the bedrooms). There are two common areas with minikitchens and a beautiful open courtyard of plants between the two house areas. I am blessed with my own room complete with a bath AND a tub! We rode through the busy city today. Think about Red-White-and-Boom and all the people there. Put half of them on motorbikes and you can get the idea what this city is like. After time to shower and unpack, we went to lunch - great shrimp fried rice. Then we rode out to Asia's Hope Christian School. The kids were waiting at the gate and they smother all of the guests with hugs. Most of the kids from the four Prek Eng (suburb of the city) homes were there. Of course, each home did a musical dance presentation. Prek Eng 3 boys were all wearing their new tie dye shirts and bandanas made with the last Vista team. We are all very tired but we are trying to get on Cambodia time so we're waiting until 9 pm to sleep. Tomorrow we are doing outreach, taking some of the kids from Prek Eng with us. This is the first time they are trying this venture with some of the Asia's Hope kids. Pray that it will be a blessing to those that go and to all of the kids that should be there.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Good news!! Glad you made it safe. Hugs and Kissed from the TN crew!

HollyDays said...

So great to see your post! :)

Excited for your trip....and glad you have your own room and bath! What fun.

Coral is sick with possible strep throat....we will know for sure tomorrow. High fevers and fatique have kept us pretty well home bound. It is the hottest day yet in Ohio today....with heat index we are well over 100. EEK!

Love you.....KEEP POSTING! :)

Marla Taviano said...

I had no idea you had a travel blog! LOVE that our boys wore their tie-dye shirts!